I was shaken when I got to that sentence. It was like Ellie was standing next to my laptop, narrating while I scrolled. Closest thing I’ve ever had to a supernatural experience.

I agree. These people would be arguing in exactly the same way if they were vlogging about paint colors. It’s “reality show” drama clickbait junk and I hope they’re not making a living from it.

I thought the BRAT thing was just about eating bland foods that won’t irritate your GI tract any further while it’s dealing with whatever made you sick. I didn’t think that those foods were specifically about diarrhea.

Except rice. Like Mitch Hedberg once said, a bowl of rice is perfect for when you just want to eat a thousand of something!

Save money on TV: just get rid of the false eyelashes.

And astrology and cosmetology? That would be a great semester’s course load.

“Vaginal sand”? Is that something like penile smegma?

She really doesn’t want to have to take it off and walk all the way to the bathroom in her wig cap to put it back on.

No no no no no....

Elizabeth Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and she wrote a biography of Bronte. I learned some disturbing things about Emily Bronte in that biography. (Previous to reading it, I remember being uneasy about the sadism in Wuthering Heights, and I’ve never re-read it.)

This guy’s car did float pretty high for several seconds — I would have been tempted to get in the water and push it towards land! (as long as there was no current) Sometimes I do overestimate my own strength...

You guys are merciless. I hope this poor guy doesn’t read all of your comments. The reporter said that another car had just done the same thing from the other side, so at least one other driver made the same mistake. There may have been some sort of illusion of pavement or shallow water from a driver’s perspective.…

But, see, if the pack of dogs tears you apart, you’ll be able to give a pretty good guess why they did it. If a cat is ignoring you, the reason is still a mystery!

Yes, she may have been saving the toddler... she was definitely hanging out nearby and keeping an eye on him beforehand. But I can’t be sure whether she ran at the dog to protect her baby or her territory or because she’s hungry for dog-flesh or whether they’ve had a long-running feud through the fence. I guess that’s…

I absolutely agree with you about people ignoring their cats. They don’t require as much hands-on care as dogs (litterbox vs. walks, self-grooming, can’t knock down visitors by jumping on them to greet them, and don’t pull during leash walks, so they don’t need “manners” training), so really they can exist (not…

I’m sure they do have rules. Most captive animals have to be handled sometimes, for veterinary treatment and disease prevention at the very least. Animal behavior specialists develop procedures to safely interact with the critters, such as using rewards to train the animal to hold still for a blood draw, stuff like…

Good for Gervais. Bullfighting is so sickeningly sadistic, and I wish that there were more animal protection groups working to shut it down. But the animal protection groups that I know of are mostly U.S.-based, and they concentrate on problems closer to home. So I’m glad that someone like Gervais, who is outside the…

I agree with you about felines but not canines. Dogs and their wild kin have a language that humans can learn (body language mostly, but also sounds) and roughly imitate, and their moods and desires are similar enough to ours that we can see the logic in it and act accordingly... and the more time we spend observing…

I think it was tranquilized during the attack, not before. Which makes me think... maybe zoo employees could have a plan in place — when they see someone being attacked, one person gets the tranq darts and pulls the trigger while maybe four others go to the animal and each grab a paw and hold on for dear life —…

Is it... is it a yeti?